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        5. Toni Morrison Biography

          Born: February 18, 1931
          Lorain, Ohio

          African American writer

          Toni Morrison is the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

          She is best known for her novels focusing on intimate relationships, especially between men and women. These stories are set against the backdrop of African American culture.

          Birth and family history

          Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, on February 18, 1931.

          She was the second of four children born to Ramah and George Wofford.

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          Her mother's parents, Ardelia and John Solomon Willis, had left Greenville, Alabama, around 1910 after they lost their farm because of debts that they could not repay. Morrison's father's family left Georgia and moved north to escape sharecropping (a system of farming in which a farmer works on someone else's land and pays the owner a share of the crop) and violence against African Americans in the South.

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